>OK, I am considering throwing in the towel. I have decided to give dotnet a try. I have read several books about C# and VB#, and I believe that I will be able to write some code relatively fast. But I don't want to start in the wrong end, I want to do it right from the start, so I ask for some advice.
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>First of all, I have Visual Studio 2012 Professional installed and running on my computer. I also have MS SQL server 2012 installed and running. And I will focus on C#.
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>One of my first questions is, should I use Windows Forms or WPF Forms?
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>In VFP I have sub-classed all the base classes, some of them more than one level. Should I do the same in .net also? If so, how?
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>Can anyone recommend a good book (or two) with essential but not too much reading?
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>Are there other important decisions I will have to make early in my learning phase?
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>And last, please don't mock me! I will always remain a VFP lover, and I know that I haven't always written nice things about dotnet. From now on I will avoid writing negative about dotnet until I know better what I am talking about.

Tore, I'm going to type out some stuff for you tonight that should be helpful. (I'm sure others will reply). To answer one question right away....on the question of subclassing, the answer is yes, though .NET's visual inheritance is quite a bit different than VFP's.

I would never mock anyone who comes from the land that brought us Henrik Ibsen and Grieg :)